The ATLAS Event #12 - 18.03.2026, 10:30–12:00 // Talk ‘Directed Live Composition, Curation and Energetic Conduction in Hybrid Artistic Practices’ by Christophe Fellay at mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The talk will explore the parallels between musical conducting and curating in contemporary art. Drawing on the artist’s own practice, it examines how both conducting and curating…
Soil & Water: Mediterranean Crossing Exhibition at Art Rooms, Kyrenia & ARUCAD, Kyrenia and Nicosia - 14.01.2025–17.02.2025 // Curated by Basak Senova, Soil & Water: Mediterranean Crossing brings together international artists exploring soil and water as material, ecological, cultural, and political agents. Through sculpture, performance, and research-based practices, the exhibition examines how soil and water shape landscapes, environments, histories, and lived experience. Situated in the Mediterranean, a region shaped by centuries…
The Soil & Water Exhibition at NIROX Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa - 01.11.2025–19.04.2026// Soil & Water, curated by Basak Senova and Johan Thom with curatorial input from Benji Liebmann and the NIROX Team at NIROX Sculpture Park, Cradle of Humankind, South Africa features works by over 50 international artists including Abri de Swardt, Alet Pretorius, Atang Tshikare, Atul Bhalla, Barbara Putz-Plecko, Caroline Le Méhauté, Christophe Fellay, Coral…
New Publications
The Mirror/Specchio Book - Mirror/Specchio, curated by Başak Şenova and Jonatan Habib Enqgvist inAugust 2025 for Agrigento Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2025, transformedTeatro Pirandello into an experimental venue where the operatic settingwas reimagined through contemporary artistic practices. This book, editedby the curators, conceived as the second chapter of Mirror/Specchio, reflectson the project through the eyes of a stray cat,…
The Sediment Book - Published by ARUCAD Press, this publication captured the process and the content of the ‘Sediment’ project. Developed by Basak Senova and Dicle Bestas, ‘Sediment’ reflects on the impact of socio-political, ecological, and economic issues on the environments we inhabit. The project’s starting point was based on comprehensive curatorial research in the archive of Loading, a…
The Octopus: On Diversities, Art Production, Educational Models, and Curatorial Trajectories - Published as part of the book series of the University of Applied Art Vienna, Edition Angewandte | De Gruyter in 2024, this book is the accumulation of the Octopus Programme (2019-2022), which was designed as a guided researchbased educational programme that encouraged artistic research and production-based collaborations in different geographical regions. The Octopus Programme developed new critical...